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Marianna Hill

American actress (born )

Marianna Hill (born Marianna Schwarzkopf; February 9, ) is an American actress who is known for her starring roles in the Western films El Condor () and High Plains Drifter and the cult horror film Messiah of Evil (both ), as adv as many roles on television series in the s and s.

Early life and education

Hill was born Marianna Schwarzkopf, in Santa Barbara, California,[1] on February 9, ,[1] to architect Frank Schwarzkopf and writer Mary Hawthorne Hill, who worked as a script doctor.

United States Army General Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. was her second cousin.[2]

Her father, a building contractor, worked in several countries, which resulted in Hill's education in California, Spain, and Canada.

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During her teenage years, her family settled in southern California when her father purchased a restaurant there.[2]

Career

Hill's initial acting experience came when she was an apprentice at the Laguna Playhouse.

She then worked three summers at the La Jolla Playhouse, and later gained more experience at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre.[2] She was a life member of The Actors Studio[3] as of January She adopted her mother's surname ("Hill") as her professional surname.

She appeared in more than 70 films and television episodes.

Her film debut came in Married Too Young ().[2] She played Gabrielle in the Howard Hawks film, Red Line () and featured in the Elvis Presley film Paradise, Hawaiian Style (); the Haskell Wexler political film Medium Cool (); the western El Condor (); the Clint Eastwood film High Plains Drifter () as Callie Travers; the cult classic horror-thriller movie The Baby (); and in The Godfather Part II () as Deanna Dunn-Corleone, Fredo Corleone's hard-drinking wife.[4]

Hill guest-starred in several s sitcoms, including My Three Sons, Hogan's Heroes and Love, American Style, as well as in the original Star Trek series ("Dagger of the Mind", , as Dr.

Helen Noel) and Perry Mason ("The Case of the Greek Goddess", , as Theba). She guest-starred in The High Chaparral; Bonanza; Death Valley Days; Gunsmoke; The Untamed Wild West; Dr. Kildare; The F.B.I.; Quincy, M.E.; S.W.A.T.; Kung Fu; The Outer Limits; Hawaii Five-O, Mannix; Batman; Daniel Boone; The Tall Man; Mission: Impossible; and the first pilot show for Harry O.

Her last television appearance was in a episode of Remington Steele.

The film stars Eastwood as a mysterious stranger who metes out justice in a corrupt frontier mining town. The film was shot on location on the shores of Mono LakeCalifornia. Dee Barton wrote the film score. The film was critically acclaimed at the time of its initial release and remains popular.

After moving to New York to teach at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, Hill moved to England in to instruct at the Lee Strasberg Studio in London. She remained there until its closure in [5] Hill continued to teach at the Method Studio in London, and made an appearance in the British film Coma Girl: The State of Grace, a part she got through the association of one of her students with the film's author and director Dina Jacobsen.

Her last American film was Chief Zabu, which was filmed on the campus of Bard College in New York in The film was not released until [6][7] In a rare widespread appearance, Hill attended the premier of the movie at the Fort Lauderdale Film Festival.[8]

Hill lives in the UK.

She teaches acting privately and at acting workshops. She was scheduled to make an appearance at the Destination Star Trek Germany convention in June ; however, the convention was postponed due to the COVID pandemic.[9]

Filmography

References

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    Marianna Hill born Marianna Schwarzkopf ; February 9, is an American actress who is known for her starring roles in the Western films El Condor and High Plains Drifter and the cult horror film Messiah of Evil bothas well as many roles on television series in the s and s. Her father, a building contractor, worked in several countries, which resulted in Hill's education in California, Spain, and Canada. During her teenage years, her family settled in southern California when her father purchased a restaurant there. Hill's initial acting experience came when she was an apprentice at the Laguna Playhouse.

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  2. ^ abcdLisanti, Tom (). Glamour Girls of Sixties Hollywood: Seventy-Five Profiles. McFarland. pp.&#;93– ISBN&#;. Retrieved June 14,
  3. ^Garfield, David ().

    "Appendix: Life Members of The Actors Studio as of January ".

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  4. ^Hal Erickson (). "Marianna Hill profile". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times.

    A gun-fighting stranger comes to the little settlement of Lago and is hired to bring the townsfolk together in an attempt to hold off three outlaws who are on their way. Sarah Belding : Be careful. You're a man who makes people afraid, and that's dangerous. The Stranger : It's what people know about themselves inside that makes 'em afraid.

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  5. ^[ "Strasberg London School Closes", February 21,
  6. ^Interview with Neil Cohen, Accessed July 22,
  7. ^"Missing for 30 years, a Trumpian satire finds its pop-culture moment", South Florida Sun Sentinel, November 1, Retrieved July 9,
  8. ^"Hill at the Fort Lauderdale Motion picture Festival".

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  9. ^"Marianna Hill - Destination Celebrity Trek". . Retrieved July 22,

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